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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






2. Any item - internal or external - that is required by a process before that process proceeds






3. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






4. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






5. Subdivision of a phase






6. Analytical technique that uses mathematical models to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. it is a method of determining the variance from a baseline parameter by using prior progress reporting periods data and projecting how much th






7. Point in time that work was scheduled to start on a schedule activity. called planned start date.






8. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones






9. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand






10. The value of work performed expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. ALSO BCWP.






11. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






12. Logical relationship where initiation of work of the successor activity depends on the completion of work of the predecessor activity






13. Depiction in a diagram format of the inputs - process actions - and outputs of one or more processes within a system






14. Reviewing all change requests - approving changes - and managing changes to the deliverables - organizational process assets - project documents and project management plan






15. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






16. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






17. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining team necessary to complete project assignments






18. An imperfection or deficiency in a project component where that component does not meet requirements or specifications and needs to be either repaired or replaced






19. Launching a process that can result in the authorization of a new project






20. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






21. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






22. Estimating the type and quantities of material - people - equipment or supplies required to perform the activity






23. Common way to determine whether a risk is considered low - moderate - or high by combining the two dimensions of a risk: its probability of occurrence and its impact on objectives if it occurs






24. A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it






25. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






26. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






27. Work that must be performed to deliver a product - service or result with the specified features and functions






28. Buyer pays the seller a set amount (as defined by the contract) and the seller can earn an additional amount if the seller meets defined performance criteria






29. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






30. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






31. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






32. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion






33. Person or organization that is actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project






34. Shortening the project schedule duration without reducing the project scope






35. A point that is not settled or is under discussion or over which there are opposing views or disagreements






36. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






37. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






38. Logical relationship where completion of the successor schedule activity is dependent upon the initiation of the predecessor schedule activity






39. Features and functions that characterize a product - service or result






40. An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables (sq. foot in construction - lines of code in software development) to calculate an estimate for activity parameters such as scope - cost - budget






41. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities






42. Directing - managing - performing and accomplishing the project work - providing the deliverables and providing work performance information






43. Document that describes how the project scope will be defined - developed and verified and how the work breakdown structure will be created and defined and that provides guidance on how the project scope will be managed and controlled by the project






44. Approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources






45. Specific type of management activity that contributes to the execution of a process and that may employ one or more techniques and tools






46. Skilled human resources - equipment - services - supplies - commodities - material - budgets or funds






47. Determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics






48. Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives






49. Hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units






50. Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time - costs - and resources or without customer approval